The band recorded a new album in 2021, and returned to the stage last year in london, not in the flesh, but as digital avatars 2d recreations of themselves from 1979. In a worldwide exclusive interview to mark 12 months of the abba voyage show, i went to the studio of the band in stockholm to talk to Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson two of the globe s most successful songwriters. Its the one Year Anniversary of the abba voyage show. It took years to create. You described it as a risk because you didnt know if people were going to come and see Digital Recreations of you. Is it a gamble that has paid off . Most certainly, yes. Artistically definitely. Why do you say artistically definitely . Because we achieved more than we could ever hope for. Seeing this happening after four or five years of work in different areas, coming there, seeing the first preview and realising that the audience actually connected to what was on there, not like they were watching a movie, but is if we were actu
correspondent in the next hour. the united nations estimates 1.9 million of gaza s 2.4 million population have been displaced that s nearly all of the population. hesham al sayyad works for penny appeal, a charity that provides medical aid and emergency food in the middle east and africa. he told us about the hundreds of thousands of palestinians displaced as a result of the israeli offensive. anyone displaced is not right, but we go back to now the amount of people displaced in gaza, especially now in the rafah governorate because of the bombings that have been happening in the south. you have a place now in the rafah governorate which is basically desert, that people have been displaced. there is 1.2 million people living in a place which can probably house at most 200,000 people in an area the size of heathrow airport. if you can imagine 1.2 million people living in an area the size of heathrow airport living on top of one another, with no irrigation, no water supplies,
The atlantic and heading in our direction, propelled by quite a strong jet stream which will also be rippling across the atlantic and it will even be south of this as we see these troughs developing, and that will allow cooler air to sweep in from the north. let s have a look at the forecast for the evening and overnight. plenty of clout. here is the weather front with the rain sweeping northwards. you should reach the lowlands in the early hours. the north of scotland may stay dry through the night but for many others it is cloudy, rainy at times, mist and merck and low cloud, breezy, but mild, 17 degrees with this maritime air mass. tomorrow it is a cloudy picture, at times bursts of rain, some of them heavy, both in the morning and afternoon. it won t be running all the time and if anything, a chance of a few sunny spells, perhaps lengthening ones across the south, maybe to the east of the pennines. the cloud and rain
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From boston to d.c. stormy buffalo, pittsburgh, charleston, west virginia. showers in the southeast. rainy at times in the southwest and in the sierra range. 80s in the northwest and northeast. scorcher, dallas to the rockies. 70s from fargo to indianapolis. well, claressa shield won a gold medal at the london olympics and came home to a hero s welcome. hundreds of shouting family and friends at flint, michigan, airport to greet her. the first time she had been home in fired up. shield is just a 17-year-old. a high school senior. but she always knew how much her success would mean to flint, the whole place went nuts when she won the gold medal. my dad is from flint, michigan. the faris family, primarily there. used to be a faris furniture and jewelry in flint, michigan. the town has been devastated. a little bit of good news for